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Love having the bye week smack dab in the middle of the season._________________'14 1st Ballot Recipient of Joe Blackburn Award... A team is built thru the draft. NASA Glenn, we have ignition in Berea.

Last edited by Bucketheadsdad on Fri Apr 21, 2017 12:30 pm; edited 2 times in total

My thoughts, much better than last years. I think it was last year we started out as road warriors with like 5 of the first 6 on the road or something. I also hate the London game, its cheating the team out of a home game._________________But wait! There's more!

We have a 2:30 (local time in London) game. That is as close as we got, at it starts at 9:30 a.m. Cleveland time. We also have a 4:00 game in California so it's really another 1:00 game.

Oh well, as long as they let us play all 16 games I'm happy.

I'm not looking forward to the London game week. I hope there won't be too much anger towards us that week.

I completely understand though. Taking a home game of an American football team and having it in London, it's not on. It's totally wrong but yeah, it'll suck to read any negativity towards us from Browns fans on social media. I hope it isn't too bad. Maybe they even get a win! There are substantial numbers of Browns fans in England.

BucketheadsdadJoined: 19 Feb 2007Posts: 7585Location: Working Overtime in the Factory of Sadness

Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 10:38 am Post subject:

candyman93 wrote:

Bucketheadsdad wrote:

candyman93 wrote:

I like that we play 2 dome teams on the road.

Colts, Texans and Lions.

New math?

Houston has a retractable roof silly.

I saw the weather forecast for October. It is supposed to be very hot that day. They'll have the roof closed, and have the AC on. _________________'14 1st Ballot Recipient of Joe Blackburn Award... A team is built thru the draft. NASA Glenn, we have ignition in Berea.

While that prime-time slight for Cleveland will be interpreted as an insult by many, it's actually a competitive advantage when you consider it objectively. The Browns and Jaguars are the only teams this season that won't face a short week and who won't have to tweak their weekly schedules at all to accommodate alternate game days or times.

When it went to a full season of Thursday night games in 2012, the NFL indicated it would ensure every team played at least once on Thursday for fairness. But in a for-profit entertainment business, a level playing field isn't going to trump ratings. The 2017 season will mark the first time since then that a team didn't play at least once on Thursday.